Blimey, My Kid's the Heir to the Billionaire Boss! by Nora Hoover

Chapter 177 You're Heading for Disaster

"Ah..." Sadie Roth sobbed in utter distress. What to do? Was she going to meet her end here today?

"Mommy, if you jump, I'll jump too!" Coco tried to cheer Sadie on to make the leap.

"Of course you'd say that, you're a bird, but I'm not!"

Sadie was on the verge of tears.

Outside, the man in black continued to batter against the door-it wouldn't be long before he broke through...

But ahead was the thirteen-story fall, sure to result in injury or worse.

Trapped between a ruthless criminal and the high-rise...

It was a dead end either way!

"Jump! Jump! Jump!" Coco flapped her wings, urging Sadie.

"Forget it, if it's my time to die, then so be it!"

Sadie closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and braced herself to jump. But as the whistling cold wind brushed her ear, she pulled back, clinging to the window and wailing, "I don't want to die, oh please, my baby is still so young, and my money, I haven't even spent it all..."

"Boom!" The door burst open.

The man brandished his knife,

"Ah-"

her clothes snagged on the window ledge. She was stuck,

way!!!" Sadie's world crumbled

Coco launched another attack, pecking

with his knife, the blade

tumbled into

the end. But the knife halted a

ready to face

blade never

figure dressed in black crumpled to

her eyes open

dark, leaning heavily against the frame, panting with the ferocity of a wild beast, an unmistakable tension

Roth's tears burst forth, her sobbing deep and heart-wrenching. "Why did you take so

me '32 Happiness Street.' No building number, floor, or apartment number.

her, arms

her clothes catching on the window sill. The force of her eagerness worked against

terror, the thought of death consuming

day she'd meet her

closed the distance and grabbed her

of his chest, finding a